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Interest rate caps around the world : still popular, but a blunt instrument
Maimbo, Samuel Munzele; Henriquez Gallegos, Claudia … - 2014
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Banking sector performance during the COVID-19 crisis
Demirgüç-Kunt, Asli; Pedraza, Alvaro; Ruiz-Ortega, Claudia - 2020
This paper analyzes bank stock prices around the world to assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the banking … policy announcements on the performance of bank stocks. Overall, the results suggest that the crisis and the countercyclical … lending role that banks are expected to play have put banking systems under significant stress, with bank stocks …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012297394
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Improving access to banking : evidence from Kenya
Allen, Franklin; Carletti, Elena; Cull, Robert J.; Qian, Jun - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010194896
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Alternative frameworks for providing financial services
Claessens, Stijn; Klingebiel, Daniela - 1999
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001423446
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Financing firms in hibernation during the COVID-19 pandemic
Didier, Tatiana; Huneeus, Federico; Larraín, Mauricio; … - 2020
The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has halted economic activity worldwide, hurting firms and pushing them toward …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012241118
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Cross-region transfers in a monetary union : evidence from the US and some implications
Pennings, Steven - 2020
US federal transfers to individuals are large, countercyclical, vary geographically, and are often credited for helping stabilize regional economies. This paper estimates the short-run effects of these transfers using plausibly exogenous regional variation in temporary stimulus packages and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012241154
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Covid-19 and food protectionism : the impact of the pandemic and export restrictions on world food markets
Espitia, Alvaro; Rocha, Nadia; Ruta, Michele - 2020
This paper analyzes the impact of Covid-19 and uncooperative trade policies on world food markets. It quantifies the initial shock due to the pandemic under the assumption that products that are more labor intensive in production are more affected through workers' morbidity and containment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012241198
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Winners and losers from COVID-19 : global evidence from Google search
Abay, Kibrom A.; Tafere, Kibrom; Woldemichael, Andinet - 2020
As COVID-19 continues to wreak havoc across the world, researchers are attempting to quantify the economic fallout from the pandemic as it continues to unfold. Estimating the economic impacts of a prevailing pandemic is fraught with uncertainties about the epidemiology of the disease and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012241326
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How to end The COVID-19 pandemic by March 2022
Agarwal, Ruchir; Reed, Tristan - 2021
How can the world reach herd immunity against COVID-19 before the second anniversary of the pandemic, or March 2022? A study of vaccine demand and supply answers this question. A target of vaccinating 60 percent of the population in each country by March 2022 is likely sufficient to achieve...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012564884
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Implications of cheap oil for emerging markets
Kabundi, Alain; Ohnsorge, Franziska - 2020
The COVID-19-triggered collapse in oil prices in March and April 2020 was the seventh, and by far the most severe, in a series of such collapses since 1970. This paper, first, compares this most recent collapse and its drivers with previous ones in an event study. It finds that it was associated...
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